Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba

Senior Telecommunications Engineer

Networks for schools

Computer classrooms comprising at least one server and one client. All
classrooms provide the following services:

Automatic configuration of network settings for all client computers.

A personal private space for each user to store information in a confidential
way, and accessible from any computer.

A shared space accessible by all users from any computer, to easily share data.

A publishing space for each user, where she can store files that will be available to
all users for reading, but they cannot change or delete.

A file mailbox for each user, which allows other users to send files in a confidential
manner.

Internet access.

Optionally, a backup server in addition to the main server.

Multiplatform classrooms

They are classrooms composed of client computers running
Windows, MacOS and Unix, simultaneously. The network provides unified
services for the three types of operating systems, what allows to have, with respect
to network services, a single unified working environment.

You can download an
informational file
(in catalan) for art schools, also suitable for other schools requiring multiplatform
networks.

Low-cost classrooms

At the time of setting up a computer classroom, what usually costs more money is
the client computers. The low-cost classrooms are classrooms that use
cheap second-hand client computers.

In this type of classrooms the programs do not run on the client computers,
but all the programs run on the server. Of course, the server must be a pretty powerful
computer, but this is just one computer.

The client computers are limited to controlling keyboard, mouse, screen and sound,
so you can use second-hand computers several years old without noting a deterioration
in the operating speed.

With this system you can set up classrooms at a fraction of the cost that would be required
using new computers.

Moreover, this type of classrooms can be auto-installable.

Auto-installable classrooms

These are classrooms in which the installation of software on the client computers
is 100% automated, under the server control.

It usually requires the installation and configuration of a single
reference computer. The remaining computers will be configured automatically
using that computer as a model.

You can have several reference computers.

The installation of a client computer can be done just once, when the
computer is first used, or it can be done from scratch each time the
computer is powered on.